problems with smtplib

[Jon Hewer]

hi

having a few problems sending an email with smtplib. i do have an
smtp server running on port 25 of my local machine

here's the relevant code (taken from python docs):

s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.connect()
s.sendmail(me, to, msg.as_string())
s.close()

and i'm getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pysendmail.py", line 31, in ?
s = smtplib.SMTP()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py", line 254, in __init__
addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

if i don't sepcify 'localhost' i get the same error

if i specify the port and local_hostname too

class SMTP([host[, port[, local_hostname]]])

then my script just freezing at some point trying to connect/send and
the email doesn't get sent

if anyone can help that would be great...

jon

 

[Harlin Seritt]

What are you getting in your smtpd logs? Are you using postfix?
sendmail? or are you running this against a Windows stmp service?

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

 

[n00m]

I also can't get my SMTP (win2k) working with Python.
But... funnily this works fine:

import smtplib
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.mail.ru')
s.sendmail('(e-mail address removed)', '(e-mail address removed)', 'hi
there!')
s.quit()

Why do they (mail.ru) allow outsiders to use their service???

 

[Steve Holden]

I also can't get my SMTP (win2k) working with Python.
But... funnily this works fine:

import smtplib
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.mail.ru')
s.sendmail('(e-mail address removed)', '(e-mail address removed)', 'hi
there!')
s.quit()

That's pretty strange: the second argument should be a list. Are you
*sure* it worked?

Why do they (mail.ru) allow outsiders to use their service???

Ask them!

regards
Steve

 

[n00m]

That's pretty strange: the second argument should be a list. Are you
*sure* it worked?

Hmm...
I sent a couple of letters to my two different addresses... and got
them!

 

[Jon Hewer]

I'm running Fedora Core 3, and I assume thats useing sendmail...

 

[Peter Hansen]

That's pretty strange: the second argument should be a list. Are you
*sure* it worked?

No longer required (as of at least Python 2.3 if not earlier).

"to_addrs : A list of addresses to send this mail to. A bare string
will be treated as a list with 1 address." (from smtplib.py sendmail()
docstring)

-Peter

 

[Steve Holden]

No longer required (as of at least Python 2.3 if not earlier).

"to_addrs : A list of addresses to send this mail to. A bare string
will be treated as a list with 1 address." (from smtplib.py sendmail()
docstring)

Oops. Documentation bug. Fortunately it looks like it's been fixed in
response to bug 1217513. Thanks for the tip, Peter.

regards
Steve

 

[Jon Hewer]

just got home and i've tried my script on windows with my isp's smtp
server, and found that my code wasn't getting past the s.connect()

changed me code to:

s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.lineone.net')
s.sendmail(me, to, msg.as_string())
s.quit()

and now it works fine